I'm curious about those of you with many high-level fronts in major cities. Did you fight hard to take them from somebody else, or did you own them ever since the earliest days of the game? How do you make sure that nobody takes your city fronts from you? I'm especially interested in hearing from those of you with fronts near Chicago, the main Black Market in the game.

No, I'm not interested in owning any front in a major city. I establish my empires of high-level fronts in places that you cannot reach by following existing fronts. Given that I can travel great distances in this game at only a modest cost (and much more quickly than the real world would allow), I see no reason to fight with other players. There is more than enough land in the world to make EVERY player a bigshot multimillionaire.

Most of my L5 fronts are ones I've taken from inactive players.. since I didn't invest much time attaining them, I also will just move on and find another group of L5's to take if someone else decides to take those away from me.